
Collection Online as of November 30, 2023
(American, b. 1938)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 15.9 x 21.6 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.293
not on view
Bill Owens began photographing while taking a visual anthropology course in college. He continued his systematic observation of human behavior and social structures as a staff photographer for a local newspaper and in personal photographic projects shot on the weekends. Leisure was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004.